By overwhelming consensus, the VIJAY IYER TRIO has become one of the pivotal jazz bands of the twenty-first century. Described as “the best piano trio in jazz today” (Der Spiegel), “the great new jazz piano trio” (The New York Times), “truly astonishing” (NPR), and “the best band in jazz” (PopMatters), the trio makes “cutting-edge music, but always accessible” (The Guardian) – emotionally resonant and deeply interactive, radiating groove and brimming with polyrhythmic detail, rooted in tradition yet truly innovative in style and form. 

Among Iyer’s honors, his trio was named Jazz Group of the Year in the DownBeat International Critics Poll in both 2015 and 2012, and his sextet was named Jazz Group of the Year in their 2018 poll. Crucially, as DownBeat notes, “the Vijay Iyer Trio is, at its core, a working band,” distinguished most of all by a profound, seemingly effortless unity, developed over hundreds of performances in nearly a dozen years. As Howard Reich wrote in The Chicago Tribune, "The three players practically have become a single rhythmic organism... one of the great rhythm units of the day." 

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Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning music historian, author, a prolific writer of album liner notes, a producer of recordings and documentaries, and has authored books on legendary albums (John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue), on a record label (The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records) and co-wrote Carlos Santana’s autobiography The Universal Tone. He has received numerous honors including a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2023. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and speaks at a variety of music festivals, conservatories, and music programs around the world.